This is a lush vibrant telling of the story of what might have happened around the death of Vincent Van Gogh. The characters are drawn from his own paintings of them, and the landscape of Auvers where he lived and ultimately died. The style is so spot on Van Gogh that it is a visual wonder to behold, so boldly colorful that my son, who watched it with me, felt overwhelmed. Like what people say ab out Florence, that the art is so intense and so beautiful that you have to take a break from it so as to not be consumed by it. Van Gogh is such a sad story of a prolific artist who painted no matter what. He had no money, he bankrupted his brother for supplies, he was just so driven to produce his work that he could not contain himself, it poured out of him at times, especially when he lived in Southern France, a place that created the backdrops that he so masterfully captured. It is not my choice in the Best Animated film category, nor is it my second choice, but it is so worthy of being seen. Do not miss it, a visual feast.
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